This weekend we gatecrashed a $5000 private fundraiser for U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand in the Hampton’s. It’s brunch, but make it fuck them. (1/7) 🧵 Gillibrand voted YES on Trump’s climate-wrecking budget. So she gets her bottomless brunch bottomlessly disrupted. (2/7)

The least popular piece of Federal US legislation is paving the way for the largest increase in police state infrastructure since the passage of the Patriot Act. We are about to witness ICE becoming a true modern day American Gestapo. Allow us to break it down: (1/12) The Republican party has shown that they believe nearly $1 Trillion in cuts to Medicaid is a worthwhile act if it allows them to enact what is ultimately the next stage of ethnic cleansing efforts within the US. (2/12)

Words fail. Words utterly fail. As we write the US Senate is advancing a bill that would defund medicaid, defund food stamps, and incinerate our earth. It would be an act of ecocide - deliberate planetary sabotage - on a scale never seen. We explain 🧵(1/17) This is not hysteria. To give you a sense of how extreme, how ruinous, this bill is, none other than *Alex Epstein* has said it goes too far.

If you don't know Alex, he's one of the world's most notorious climate deniers and the author of "The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels"(2/17)

This One, Big, Beautiful bill is the death knell to the American working class.

EVEN WITH all its cuts to public services, this bill still manages to add almost $4,000,000,000,000 to our deficit.

More details in the thread below🧵.

1/9 This bill takes a sledgehammer to an already broken economic engine. In typical Republican fashion, it increases taxes on the poor to give more to the rich.

This is literally reverse Robinhood, except they give you a tax break at the tanning salon to keep you complacent.

2/9

MAJOR UPDATE: Republicans just announced plans to decimate the largest piece of climate legislation ever passed. This is a full-scale attack on our future. This is murderous. This is madness.

Here's what we know so far (1/12) 🧵 IRA tax cuts incentivized companies to invest $843 billion across the U.S. in green energy and climate-friendly infrastructure. $321 billion has already been spent…the remaining $522 billion? That’s on the chopping block. Right now.

2/12

BIG UPDATE: Today we are launching Project 2026, the people's movement to quash oligarchy and save our country and climate. Here's the four-part plan: 🧵 First, we are going after the oligarchs directly. The billionaires are using our country as their personal dumping ground. They are seeking to wrest control of our government to enrich themselves. We will rise up. We will stop them.

1/ Climate Defiance stands in lockstep solidarity with Mahmoud Khalil. Over the weekend, Mahmoud was abducted by ICE and torn from his 8-month-pregnant wife. He is now missing. This is a rapidly developing story. Here's what we know so far: 🧵 2/ Mahmoud is a beloved community member and activist. He has fought tirelessly to stop the genocide in Gaza. Now, he has been ripped from his home, leaving his wife, who is due to give birth in weeks, in anguish.

This is a dark day for America. The Republican Party, priding itself on "fiscal responsibility," just voted to rip a $3,400,000,000,000 hole in the deficit in order to give tax breaks to billionaires - while cutting Medicaid and slashing climate funding. (1/9)🧵 The resolution mandates that the Energy and Commerce Committee come up with $880,000,000,000 in cost savings. Energy and Commerce is the committee that oversees Medicaid and Medicare. We are literally robbing the poor and the elderly to fatten the Wall Street Fat Cats! (2/9)

Today we share this story publicly for the first time.

Our executive director met with a senior DNC official for lunch at a ramen restaurant. Here's what happened next. 🧵 Some context: this meeting took place after Biden epically bombed the June 27th debate but before he got out of the race.

This is horrific. This is obscene. Fossil-fueled fires are incinerating Los Angeles. Multiple lives vanquished. Fire hydrants empty. Neighbors arguing with firefighters over whose home will be saved. Here is what we know (1/8)🧵 First, some basics. Burning coal, oil and gas releases carbon that that traps heat and warms the planet. This heat dries out the vegetation and makes fires larger and more frequent. (2/8)

The time has come for climate populism!

The class struggle and the climate struggle must become one. The top 1% spew as much planet-heating pollution as the entirety of the bottom 50%. Stop blaming people with plastic straws. Start blaming plutocrats. That's how we win. (1/8)🧵 We won't win with sleep-inducing drivel about "market-based solutions" and "net-zero by 2050." No one cares about that!

We CAN win, but only by rightfully blaming the billionaire class who treats humanity as their servants and the planet as their personal garbage dump. (2/8)

They pretend this is ok. They act like this is normal. The brunches and happy hours and flute lessons proceed. The climate criminals continue galavanting between galas and global forums, honored as "thought leaders" and heralded as drivers of the "energy transition." (1/17) 🧵 The "journalists" dully churn out uninspired "thought pieces" about the word latinex, as scientists voice desperate and gut-wrenching pleas that this moment is "code red for humanity." (2/17)

The COP29 Summit ended today. Cosplaying as the premier global climate forum, it devolved into a carnival of bickering and backstabbing and delay. We will not sugarcoat the truth: this year's summit was a failure for humanity, a scar on our moral fabric. (1/13) 🧵 First, some background: every year the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change puts on a Conference of Parties, or, in short, a COP. This year's conference was the 29th, and it was held in Azerbaijan, a major petro state. (2/13)

This is urgent. No one is talking about it but the U.S. House of Representatives is debating a bill TODAY that would give the President unlimited, unilateral power to shut down any organization that defies him. We explain: (1/8) 🧵 The bill is called H.R. 9495.

It came up for a rushed vote last week, and failed, but only because a 2/3 majority was required. Now Republicans are trying to revive it under regular procedure - meaning it would only require a simple majority. (2/8)

This is horrific. This is obscene. The World Meteorological Organization just dropped a major new report. 2024 will be the warmest year on record. This is a "red alert." We break down this new study here:

(1/13) 🧵 Global temperatures have ALREADY risen 1.54 degrees Celsius, so far this year. The safe limit is 1.5 degrees.

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The Democratic Party is a failure. It lost the trust of the American people because it offered nothing to them. Its fluffiness, floppiness & complicity in genocide forked over the Presidency to fascists. It must be dismembered before it can reemerge. Full stop. (1/14) Kamala Harris did not fight for the working class, so the working class did not fight for her. Her brother-in-law, who is her top advisor, serves right now as the CFO of Uber!! Is it any surprise that she lost non-college voters? Is it any surprise? (2/14)

Jill Stein is not a prophet. She is not a visionary. She is a narcissist. Her supporters are righteous, but she exploits their grief. Profoundly unserious – a joke, in fact – she does not give a damn about the children of Gaza for whom she cries crocodile tears. (1/15) There are 535 seats in the House+Senate. Jill Stein’s Green Party controls none of them.
There are 7383 state legislative seats in the US. Jill Stein’s Green Party controls none of them.
Jill is more focused on building a personality cult than building political power. (2/15)

No. The two candidates are not "equally evil."
Only one rapes women, bans Muslims, incites mobs and uses Nazi language about minorities "poisoning the blood" of the nation.
And it's widely ignored but on climate Trump is uniquely vile. We share full details here (1/12)🧵 A vast array of critically-important regulations are at risk if Trump wins. Presently, the EPA is working to regulate toxic, planet-heating emissions from power plants. Trump would scrap that. He'd also likely defund the EPA. (2/12)

No one is talking about it but there's a documented, detailed conspiracy to shred our bedrock environmental laws. It's all in writing - in Project 2025. The media won't cover it - they're distracted by Trump fellating microphones - so we'll share the details here
🧵(1/20) First, some background, in case you are just tuning in: Project 2025 is an initiative of the ultra-conservative, extremist "Heritage Foundation." It aims to reshape - or dismantle - virtually every aspect of our society and democracy. (2/20)

The media is barely covering it but today in Valencia 95 human lives were snuffed out, extinguished brutally by profit-driven, planet-heating pollution and the catastrophic flooding that comes with it. Here is what we know so far.

🧵(1/8) Cars dangling from trees, rescuers wading through neck-deep water, entire communities destroyed. This is not a dystopian climate fiction novel, this is happening right here, right now. (2/8)

A brand-new report just found that billionaires are spewing as much carbon in 90 minutes as the average person emits in a lifetime. This is hideous. This is grotesque. This is a crime against humanity. If this does not shock you to your core, what will? What will?

🧵 (1/12) This is not a report from a Maoist zine in Berkeley. It is from Oxfam, a leading international humanitarian organization.

It found that if everyone emitted at the rate of the top 1%, our "carbon budget" would be spent in 5 months. Report is here. (2/12) oxfam.org/en/press-relea…